India's crows have recently begun to disappear

After the disappearance of sparrows from the country’s urban landscape, the focus has now turned to the population of the common Indian house crow. Paul R. Greenough, professor of Modern Indian History and Community and Behavioural Health, University of Iowa, the U.S., who is studying the decline of common Indian house crows or Corvus splendens, delivered two talks during his visit to Mysuru last month. “Unlike tigers and elephants, Indian house crows eschew the jungle for villages and towns; in fact, house crows are India’s most persistent companionate species and have always flourished side by side with humans in villages and cities. Yet, crows have recently begun to disappear”, he said during his talks on ‘Indian Crows in an Urban Context: Environmental history of a companionate species’.

Source: The Hindu, 24 April 2017
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